If there's one thing I hate about our new found wealth, it's the apologetic "fan" journalists we have. Principally Shindler and Simon Hattenstone at The Guardian. Seems fairly transparent to me what they're doing; the written media on the whole are opposed to City's assault on the top four, and these sycophants are trying to keep onside of the press so deem fit to criticise the team they supposedly love.
But they don't speak for us, the man on the street supporter. Indeed, it's only really the aforementioned hacks who can accentuate the negatives in what's happening at City - every genuine fan I've spoken to feels quite differently.
What really riles me is just how out of touch they are, and the sense that they feel somehow superior to your regular fan. They seemed to revel in our ineptitude in the past, as they could be self deprecating and almost embarrassed about the fact they supported our club. "Plucky old City". Loveable, but essentially rubbish.
Suddenly we're in a position of power and bizarrely they don't like it. But it's a stance I can't comprehend. Surely if you were a true City fan you'd relish the fact that we are in a poisition to threaten the hegemony of the top four?! Every other City fan I know does.
"Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'.
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'."
But they don't speak for us, the man on the street supporter. Indeed, it's only really the aforementioned hacks who can accentuate the negatives in what's happening at City - every genuine fan I've spoken to feels quite differently.
What really riles me is just how out of touch they are, and the sense that they feel somehow superior to your regular fan. They seemed to revel in our ineptitude in the past, as they could be self deprecating and almost embarrassed about the fact they supported our club. "Plucky old City". Loveable, but essentially rubbish.
Suddenly we're in a position of power and bizarrely they don't like it. But it's a stance I can't comprehend. Surely if you were a true City fan you'd relish the fact that we are in a poisition to threaten the hegemony of the top four?! Every other City fan I know does.
"Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'.
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'."